J. Cole is currently prepping his sophomore release, which he is hoping to release in June of 2012, but in the meantime the Roc Nation rapper took some time out to chop it up with Karmaloop, as he spoke on being compared to Kanye West, helping the careers of Kendrick Lamar and Big K.R.I.T., being a superstar in some markets and

Addressing his career path being compared to that of the career path of Kanye West:

“If it feels like that, then that’s great. I would love to be as successful as he has been, putting out hits and making hits consistently that still reprersent him. All his hits, you would never look at him like, ‘Aw, why you make that?’ It all felt like Kanye West, which is dope.”

J.Cole on helping the careers of Kendrick Lamar and Big K.R.I.T by releasing his project without the big single:

“We created a new mold, a new formula. Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T. now, they don’t necessarily have to feel the pressure that I felt like, ‘Where’s the big single?’ I was the sacrificial lamb of that. That’s why my album wasn’t coming out, because of the label waiting on a huge single.”

Being a superstar in certain radio markets:

“Those things just didn’t catch up nationally. Now, ‘Work Out’ is going. ‘Work Out’ will go because it’s doing its thing on radio every day. “Can’t Get Enough” is gonna go. “Nobody’s Perfect” is gonna go. But it’s just, the work that I put in on the ground level was faster than radio catching on. You got some stations like in Tampa, L.A., New York, some markets where I’m a superstar. They play my songs 35, 40 times a day or whatever. Then you have some markets that are barely playing it.”

He adds:

“At one point, yeah. That’s how you get a song like ‘Work Out.’ I went to radio stations and seen how radio stations work…I went and learned all these things. That’s how I made a record like ‘Work Out.’ I went, ‘Okay, I can play that game. I’ll give you a song full of hooks,’ the catchy shit that I knew would work on radio. That’s me playing the game.”

jim paponetti

is this site like sucking real bad for others too? I can barely even access this site anymore. Keeps saying theres a connection error.

Yes sir, I couldn’t log in for a couple weeks. I have to clear my browser’s history/cookies just about every other day for the login to work.

John

C’mon J.Coles career is way different than Kanyes. Kanye was producing songs for Jay Z before his first album.

Jaffar

Their careers maybe different, but their stories are some what alike.

But anyway, I’d say lyrically, J.Cole > Kanye.

And sometime in the future, he might even surpass him in the production column. Though Kanye is a sick ass producer. One of the best.

T da kid

lyrically yes cole got that but i dont see him passin ye on the production anytime soon

SugarShane

Cole can’t touch kanye lyrically.

Jim

Ya thats what I have to do as well. Using internet explorer runs it fine tho. Chrome and Firefox is horrible with it.

http://beta.defsounds.com/members/whitefolks/ Whitefolks

I use firefox, and only had a problem with loading for a few hours yesterday morning, never any other time. There are a few other things that is going on with the admin panel though. But I will shoot dude an email and let him know whats going on with the site to you 2 guys.

If anyone else has a problem, inbox me, or reply here, so we know how big the issue is.

My nigga Cole been doing to much studying and knows this is a game of chess if you want to survive in this game. I love that about him, pause.

My shit works fine with Firefox, I click the login link at the top left and it automatically logs me in and I post or comment from there. No hiccups or anything. But when the site is down from cloud something server or someshit I can’t access shit, then that’s when I tweet Jokesta and complain on twitter…Lol but he always seem to be cool about it and says the site is undergoing some adjustments and ish like that.